Anthemis Group, founded in 2010 and headquartered in London, is “focused on re-inventing financial services for the 21st century.” It’s an important firm within the FinTech ecosystem, but a little hard to categorize. Anthemis advises large …
Category: Venture Capital
In FinTech, Insurance, Venture CapitalTags Esurance, InsurTech, P2P insurance, XL CatlinPublish Date
XL Group is a global insurance company with both insurance and reinsurance operations. Operating primarily under the XL Catlin brand since the 2015 acquisition of Catlin Group Limited, the company today provides property, casualty, and specialty …
Earlier this year, Spanish bank BBVA shut down its in-house venture arm, BBVA Ventures, and placed the portfolio, the cash remaining from the original $100 million allocation, and an additional $150 million into a new venture …
Boston-based G20 Ventures recently announced the closing of its first fund with $63.5MM in assets. G20 was founded and is led by Bill Wiberg and Bob Hower, industry veterans who will be familiar to many from …
In February, Paris-based AXA announced the launch of a new venture capital fund to invest in innovation in the insurance, asset management, financial technology and healthcare service industries. AXA Strategic Ventures will have as much as …
The Wells Fargo Startup Accelerator is a semiannual boot camp for young companies that will help them commercialize their ideas and begin selling effectively into the enterprise marketplace and/or the financial services vertical. Wells Fargo is seeking …
Springfield, MA-based Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company is launching a venture capital firm to invest in startups that will help the company improve its life insurance, disability, annuity, long-term care, retirement plans, and investment businesses. MassMutual …
In FinTech, Startups, Venture CapitalTags Boston, Consumer United, Kensho, peerTransfer, SwipelyPublish Date
These are the FinTech startups in the greater Boston area that announced new funding in the first six months of 2014: Consumer United – $14MM Kensho – $10MM peerTransfer – $6.2MM Swipely – $20MM Did I …
Some say venture capital investing is a “pattern recognition” business. But others say that pattern recognition is one way unfounded biases are perpetuated. And that even experienced VCs who rely too much on pattern recognition are simply …
Jeff Bussgang is General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, an early-stage VC firm with offices in Boston and New York. Jeff is currently a board member at FinTech startups Plastiq and SimpleTuition, as well as at …